Quantum Research Races Ahead
Plus, venture dealmaking soars as exits remain stalled
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Viatris to Buy Pacira BioSciences for $1.65 Billion
Viatris has agreed to buy pain-drug maker Pacira BioSciences for $1.65 billion in a deal that expands the healthcare company’s medicines portfolio.
Norway Aims to Open Debate on Use of AI Glasses in Public With Ban Proposal
Norway’s minister of digitalization said implementing the ban could be complicated due to European regulations.
Quantum Startup Oratomic Now Worth $5.4 Billion After Series-B Funding
Quantum computing startup Oratomic raised $475 million, just three months after its Series A, the latest sign of growing investor enthusiasm in the nascent technology.
Argenx Shares Plunge After Autoimmune-Disease Trial Halt
The stock was down 18%, wiping out year-to-date gains after the biotech stopped a late-stage clinical trial of its Vyvgart drug due to lack of efficacy.
What Growing Up on a Farm Taught Elanco’s CEO
Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
Normalizing Trajectory Models
Diffusion-based models decompose sampling into many small Gaussian denoising steps, an assumption that breaks down when generation is compressed to a few coarse transitions. Existing few-step methods address this through distillation, consistency training, or adversarial objectives, but sacrifice the likelihood framework in the process. We introduce Normalizing Trajectory Models (NTM), which models each reverse step…
Rally Up: ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Launches on GeForce NOW
Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV users will soon be able to purchase GeForce NOW memberships directly through…
Google Cloud introduces the Gemini agent.
Google Cloud’s new Gemini agent automates workflows by connecting to your business systems. See how it streamlines enterprise tasks in one prompt.